shadorne
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| ATC Speakers...Do you use them with Grill On/Off In theory they won't sound very different at all because these have rounded edges on the baffle - so the grill plays no role in helping to reduce edge diffraction - so the imaging/soundstage should be unaffected.With large open weave fabrics, all ... | |
| Smooth Sounding Tube Amps that Can drive ATC I can't give any advice on a good tube amp but I can suggest you a few albums that will sound good.Blues: Keb 'MoRock: Dire Straits (although some of their live stuff is mixed a bit bright), Tom Petty Greatest Hits and Wildflowers, Midnight Oil Ea... | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping EAC is apparently one of the most accurate for ripping and critical for scratched/damaged CD's - iTunes with Error correction on is apparently identical to EAC on most normal undamaged CD's. (this has been garnered from Head.fi forums - I have no ... | |
| Building a music server - newbie Any one can explain How will be the noice/jitter level while playing laptop as the transport? Is there any other way to play the music to avoid such problems. Very difficult to predict. Connecting your laptop to a Benchmark DAC1 would be a solutio... | |
| ATC SCM's with Spectral Components Things I've read seem to suggest they require more than modest power (i.e., 100 W RMS might not be enough power), and that they sound best when played loud (in not-so-small rooms).They are leaner in the bass then most other designs (flat with no b... | |
| Looking for new speakers? Try a sealed box speaker with slow roll-off starting around 60 Hz. Examples: ATC SCM19, Merlin TSM, NHT Classic 3, Lipinski L 707. | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping I am not a respected listener - I make no claims to golden ears at all.I have tested redbook CD versus Apple Lossless (burned from said CD with error correction on) using a Toslink remote switcher (so without getting up from the listening chair).I... | |
| Tools to measure in room response Behringer ECM 8000 with an XLR cable is cheap and works fine. There are better measurement mikes out there but for room evaluation this is more than good enough. You will need a microphone stand also and a USB interface to your microphone (it uses... | |
| ATC SCM's with Spectral Components I'd tend to go for the SCM19. ATC's all sound similar - but there is more transparency, SPL and bass extension as you go up the line. The 19 has the same mid bass driver as the pro models but with a simpler modern cabinet construction and differen... | |
| Speaker Hum on my Quad 12L Active's It sounds like you have a ground loop because it happens when you connect the RCA cables.One of the speakers may not be grounded properly at your power bar - when you connect the RCA you are connecting the grounds between the two speakers with you... | |
| Buble's interesting comments on recording I have heard his latest album - for many men it will be a great stocking stuffer for the lady in their life. Great stuff. | |
| Music and politics I find musicians, on the whole, are bright, talented and hard working (all genres). I respect that they can have political opinions too and have something to say. | |
| Passive Preamps Tvad,I was qualifying my comment from a 'measurements' perspective (reproducing a signal) - what sounds best with the gear each of us happen to own and our individual tastes will no doubt differ... I hope we can agree on that. | |
| Klein & Hummel I am using active ATC 100's - K&H are the same design philosophy (active speaker with high accuracy, good transient response + wide even dispersion) they even use ATC's midrange. The K&H O300D has excellent bass and would work in a farfiel... | |
| Passive Preamps Out of (by memory 7 designers of note) not one single designer preferred passive. Yes- of course they would - it a simple matter of electrical science. It is the same reason to avoid passive crossovers in speakers. As you correctly point out - el... |